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"did_you_know": "Pietro da Cortona completed this drawing and the six frescoes related to it for a prominent patron and palazzo in Rome when he was just 27 years old.",
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"description": "Pietro da Cortona was one of the most successful and active fresco painters in Rome in the mid-1600s. This drawing is a preparatory sheet\u2014highly worked-up with many different mediums\u2014for one of the artist's six frescoes portraying the story of Solomon commissioned by the Roman nobleman Asdrubale Mattei (1556-1638) for the gallery of his Palazzo Mattei di Giove. Reflecting the artist's as well as his patron's interest in classical antiquity, Cortona combined a classical relief-like composition with specific references to Roman objects and architectural elements in the composition. The subject represents a foolish episode from Solomon's life, when he was lured into the worship of idols by the \"foreign\" women with whom he kept company.",
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"citation": "\"Museum Acquisitions.\" Drawing 10, no. 1 (May-June 1988): 17-18.",
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"citation": "Merz, J\u00f6rg Martin. Pietro da Cortona: Der Aufstieg zum f\u00fchrenden Maler im barocken Rom. T\u00fcbingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1991.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
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